My allergies and I are very excited to say that the TurnTools/XKStore 3D Printed version of MJD6865AA is working great on my newly retrofitted (US) 97 XK8 (Mrs. Peel) so far. It's not a smooth, 100% watertight, flawless, or fancy part and it is very obviously printed in 2 pieces and glued together but I'm thrilled I took a chance on it. Side question, does anyone know of anybody in Minnesota or neighboring states with a working old Jaguar IDS setup who can change my fan speed setting to Pollen Filter?

The housing was not especially cheap and you will need to leave ample time for them to print your order because they print each individually (and they are bit overly busy at the moment) but they were very lovely and professional to deal with by email.

Installing it today was less bad than I expected... Removed wipers (with a puller), the scuttle panel, a few water shields, and then only had to loosen the wiper lineage not remove it. Putting masking tape no the windshield to mark the wiper positions would have been a good thing but I totally forgot... The housing fit is adjustable side to side a little and I did shift it just slightly toward the passenger side for better clearance of the wiper linkage.

I'm attaching a bunch of pics I took today when installing it. I forgot to take pics of the housing after I sanded down the rough edges before installing. And here's the link to the housing: https://www.xkstore.at/en/air-partic...aa-orig-1.html



Clearance of the wiper linkage is about a half inch here when running. The housing can be shifted side to side a little before tightening and I shifted it a tad to the toward passenger side for better clearance.

These screws they sent went right in but getting an Allen wrench on the other, very hard to see driver's side one was awkward, I ultimately used a passthrough ratchet and an Allen bit, a ball head Allen wrench would likely work too.

Inserting it face down and then tipping it back up once in there seemed to work best.

5 MM Allen head bolts they sent worked fine

I loosened this bolt but did need remove it. Lifting up the linkage a little gets you just enough clearance.

Removing the water shedder was only one bolt and helped a lot

Plan on maybe replacing or touching up the double sided foam tape under this water shedder to keep it sealing well and keep your filter more dry-ish.

See that water rectangular drain down in the middle? That was popped up and wouldn't stay down in place (meant to snap in place with 2 little nibs but heat/age deformed enough to not stay in anymore) so I used 4 thin strips of double sided mounting tape to stick in down in there better. Once again thinking better drainage means drier filter.

You put the double sided foam tape on the back side to seal against the firewall. That surface and the housing are slightly curved rather than flat, btw.


Here's the link https://www.xkstore.at/en/air-partic...aa-orig-1.html

 

Thank you for posting!